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Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE : (where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance?
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Driffield, Nigel L., Love, James H. and Yang, Yong (2016) Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE : (where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance? Research Policy, 45 (2). pp. 491-506. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.11.004 ISSN 0048-7333.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.11.004
Abstract
We examine the extent to which the knowledge or technological capability of foreign affiliates actually enhances the performance of their parent companies. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 1600 multinationals and more than 4000 of their overseas affiliates, covering 46 home and host countries. We find considerable evidence of enhanced parent productivity as a result of their affiliates’ performance, which we interpret as evidence of reverse knowledge transfer from affiliates to parents. This effect is robust to different tests including IV estimation and a falsification exercise based on unconnected ‘matched’ affiliates. We find that both physical and strategic location markedly affects the affiliate-parent relationship, and that distance reduces the positive impact that affiliate performance has on that of the parent.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International business enterprises -- Investments, Capital, Foreign sales corporations, Subsidiary corporations, Foreign subsidiaries, Related party transactions | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Research Policy | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0048-7333 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 491-506 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.respol.2015.11.004 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 May 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 | ||||||||||
Funder: | Leverhulme Trust (LT) | ||||||||||
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